ABSTRACT
Some of the pressure for diversity in academic social science found release through the professionalization of political science and sociology as independent disciplines. The most significant factor behind the separation of political science from economics and history was the rise of public administration as an important separate study. In the 1890s, when management emerged as an important function in government and industry, there was a marked increase in social scientists' activity outside the classroom in administrative roles. The intellectual substance of political science evolved in a similar direction. The changing interests and activities of political scientists clearly demonstrate the importance of the emerging field of administration as a professionalizing agent. The specialized study of administration arose only after the failure of more sweeping programs designed to include a sound political indoctrination as a part of the general education provided for the social elite that would occupy positions of leadership in private and public life.
